Brief Profile:
Fun stuff: Taught self Japanese. Member, public relations officer of TKD club (2 years) President, Founder Japanese Club (3 years) Selected to participate in a video conference with students from all over Japan. Artwork displayed all over campus for two semesters I paint, sing, make thoroughly unmelodious noises with what I'm pretty sure is supposed to be a guitar... I'm also writing a comic book!
School stuff: Dean's list since time immemorial because I choose not to remember the times when I was not. Bio honors Award for Japanese studies Graduated magna cum laude Tutoring ESL students (3 years)
Clinical stuff: Hospital volunteering in pre-op, post-op, GE, and the ER Shadowing
Research: Army lab working on a vaccine for shigella
Paid employment: See above and raise it a year of work in a teaching lab and lots of time spent finding books for people for a bag of chips and a half-gallon of gas per hour. Now, make it all at the same time and with a full courseload!
// Applications //
Application Cycle One: 2008
Undergraduate college: George Mason University
Undergraduate Area of study: Biological/Life Sciences
Institution: Virginia Tech
Area of Study: Engineering/Technology
Degree Obtained: n/a
Total MCAT SCORE: 520
MCAT Section Scores:
B/B 130,
C/P 130,
CARS 129
Overall GPA: 3.57
Science GPA: 3.53
Summary of Application Experience
To clarify, I spent two years in engineering and then transferred at which point I became a bio major. As the two don't overlap at all, the new major has taken four years worth of work to complete. Four years of 3.8 or better.
Also, I've taken the MCAT twice, with the most recent score (minus the writing portion, 'cause the new one is absolutely ridiculous and I contest its validity, though not officially) being reflected above (9-point increases for the win!).
Back to that whole timeline thing... 06/16/08 Submitted AMCAS! 06/18/08 WashU secondary in! 06/27/08 Verified! 06/28/08 Still waiting on the status of that committee letter. Writing apps for Ohio (will submit upon official invitation), GW (invited to complete, so no reservations!)! 07/07/08 Committee letter uploaded to virtual evals. Not received by AMCAS, not received by anyone else that cared to tell me about it. ;) 07/26/08 WashU still doesn't report having my letters, oddly enough. I'm complete at a bunch of places, but the secondary train rolls on! 08/19/08 Interviews! Time to finish up the rest of those secondaries! 09/01/08 I have written more essays than I care to admit. 09/09/08 Interviews!!! This is already twice as good as last cycle. ;) 10/19/08 One waitlist (it's letter-writing time!) and another interview invite to the great state of Ohio! Changed ethnicity to 'other' to reflect AMCAS ethnicity. I still look plenty caucasian... to some people. Causasian, then? 10/28/08 WashU invite!! I knew they didn't hate me enough last cycle!!
